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by eganist 5y ago
The story was almost certainly written with media optioning in mind, hence the human drama. It's common with longform journalism, and it's common for the author as well. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5200697&#x2
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by eganist 5y ago
Original title was too long: > Hidden order across online extremist movements can be disrupted by nudging collective chemistry
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Order in online extremism can be muddled by nudging collective chemistry(nature.com)
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by eganist 5y ago
> Now they can, they just say they won’t and expect you to trust their word. In theory this can be verified by the developer though? Signing an app shouldn't (I haven't checked this in Google's case) change any integrity v
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by eganist 5y ago
I don't understand the intent of this comment, but one sentence stood out: > It changes from "We guarantee we will distribute your app unmodified" to ... well, I don't know what you are promising, but it's not th
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by eganist 5y ago
Thanks, and thanks for getting it. :)
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by eganist 5y ago
Senior/Staff developers/architects etc at FAANGs can command as much or more. It's a routine topic of conversation on hn. Netflix specifically is known for paying much more of it as cash than the others. https://ww
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm interpreting the statement to mean that ransomware very rapidly lost its reputation as a nuisance-crime this week. Misplaced ransomware runs a far more substantial risk of triggering enforcement action now. Or at least that's
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by eganist 5y ago
The referral feature isn't clear to me - would someone refer the contact info of the target business, or one's own contact info for further conversation? I'm assuming the latter. And congratulations!
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by eganist 5y ago
> For what it's (not) worth, it prompted me to sign up today. :) More for my understanding than anything else, and with every guarantee that I won't present any follow-up questions or statements, but why was this the tipping p
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by eganist 5y ago
Why no need for highrises?
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by eganist 5y ago
> Paradise on Earth and home to the nation’s fastest-growing industry; California could easily grow to 100M residents if it simply allowed housing to be built to accommodate all the people who want to live here. And it would be a net wi
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by eganist 5y ago
> I am not okay with [...] the whole social distancing narrative Yikes. That's a flag. At least one reputable study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200910110824.h... > free circumcis
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by eganist 5y ago
Largely because the flagging consumed the oxygen in the room. But there are still comments talking about potential outcomes. My main concern is around whether the foundation ends up splitting from its current areas of focus (climate change
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by eganist 5y ago
> No, it isn't. It literally is just celebrity gossip, with nothing to stimulate intellectual curiosity, nothing related to technology, and no new or interesting phenomenon to discuss. It's bad enough we have to entertain obit
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by eganist 5y ago
Considering the high-profile nature of their partnership as it pertains to the Gates Foundation as well as potential down-stream impacts e.g potentially around which projects are picked up by the foundation, strategic philanthropic decisi
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by eganist 6y ago
> taking a step back, this is such a broken way of running a department. Why?
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by eganist 6y ago
Though I see your argument, I feel you've abstracted the message too far, thus stripping it of its meaning and making your implied analogy falter. "[corporation] did something [illegal and morally reprehensible]" tends to get
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by eganist 6y ago
> The fee that is paid is [...] shared with other departments, giving us the Apple M1 chips in return! Do you have a source on the claim that profits from the app store explicitly funded development of the m1 chip? That's an interes
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by eganist 6y ago
Specific authorization is probably fulfilled here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary
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by eganist 6y ago
The first meaningful Terms of Use seems to have gone live Feb 17, 2017. After that, January 1, 2020, and then January 15, 2021. Pre-2017: http://web.archive.org/web/20161229045611/http://www.ycombin... 2
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by eganist 6y ago
Alienware = dell for the top end stuff like 3090s. And to that end: https://i.imgur.com/oXgofp7.png
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by eganist 6y ago
This is a statement announcing an investigation. Expecting a mea culpa right at this time is a bit premature considering they still need to figure out where they went wrong. There's value in setting down the pitchforks.
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> I'm not sure what the methodologies are. https://www.adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sourc... https://www.adfontesmedia.com/white-paper-multi-analyst-rati... > They strike me all as—
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> I think that mostly shows the limits of their analysis. The Guardian is basically the left-wing paper in the UK; I don't think there's anything to the left of them outside of fairly fringe, niche, and very fragmented publicat
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> I have a couple of observations: firstly, it's interesting that the Guardian is considered to be dead-centre, while most in the UK would say that it's quite on the left. I found that surprising. Who? Both Ad Fontes and AllSid
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by eganist 6y ago
That may be one defense, but the counter to that is that personal stories do a better job of winning people to pick a side versus facts and stats. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07
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by eganist 6y ago
> A six-figure salary to study whether the electric grid is racist is absolutely excessive, but it’s just a small detail of the overall fraud, waste, and abuse that drives the exorbitant utility prices in Seattle. Yikes. If the market de
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by eganist 6y ago
> I know one individual personally that was paid a six-figure salary by the electric utility to study how the utility grid was systemically racist. Best I can tell he wrote some emails and made a few presentations and that’s about it. T
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by eganist 6y ago
> Ehhh, they didn't really say that - if they were told directly to remove that ability, one would expect them to come out and say so directly, and not make a wishy-washy statement like the above. Anything that 'seemingly sugg

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